Allison Phillips

Allison is the Managing Director, Human and Planetary Health initiative for the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment. She was formerly the Executive Director for Stanford’s Center for Innovation in Global Health. Allison is passionate about multi-disciplinary approaches to improving the lives of women and children worldwide. Prior to joining Stanford, Allison was Deputy Director of the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) Malaria Elimination Initiative where she joined during the start-up phase and co-led strategic planning, fundraising, grant management, donor and partner relations, and team operations for a team that grew to 60 with an annual budget of $12 million. 

Prior to joining UCSF, Allison lived in Tanzania where she worked with a large NGO to lead malaria and HIV prevention education programs in rural communities. With over 15 years of global public health experience, Allison also worked with McKinsey and Company to recommend investment opportunities in the private health sector across Africa, worked on HIV/AIDS prevention in Thailand, and researched the relationship between modern and traditional medicine in India. Allison graduated from Lewis and Clark College with a degree in Medical Anthropology, and now lives in Menlo Park with her husband and two young daughters.